A small digression to wrapping paper svp/please. But isn't this darling?

I may have picked this up in Nancy and a meat pie/tourte Lorrain may have been wrapped up in it. I forget. But isn't this auspicious and impressive? No idea what it says...Mystery solved. This is from a boulangerie after all, referring to the 6 laws of Antoine Augustin (born in 1737) for making bread:Les bles/wheat, le sel/salt, la levure/the yeast, l'hydration/water, la fermentation/fermentation, and le petrissage/kneading.

I know this wrapping paper held a bit of fromage from theParis by Mouth tour of Montmartre. So many souvenirs...

Back to boulangerie bags. What an interesting nature morte/still life. Croissants and brioche plus your mandolin. But of course!

28 comments:

My heart stops when I see the vendeuse folding the bag top down. I want to YELL out STOP!And gawd forbid you ask for an extra baguette bag. Even if you offer to pay they will not let you have it.It's the law...I guess

I save some of the lids from the boxes that my wonderful patisserie gateaux were in, tied with a pretty ribbon. they have such lovely pictures on them, even from my tiny village patisserie. I guess that it's a couronne/the king cake, in your last picture .

Thank you! I love bags, sacs, wrappers. Graphics, printing, symbols,papers...love them.One gift I will give this year is Lindt coconut white chocolate bars over wrapped in a paper sleeve. Nice to know there is someone else out there enjoying small "common" pleasures

I can only aspire to a collection of French bags....but I am the proud pack-rat owner of many lovely bags acquired stateside...Apple and McKenzie-Child are the jewels in my crown.It took a European eye to alert me to one of our own deserving packages: the Land-0-Lakes butter box! Can't recall what nationality the blogger was, but she described the "exotic" Indian maiden on the box in glowing terms. A propnet in his own country ...

They are quite sophisticated, these wrappers. Reminds me of the one that Isabelle has for her pastries at Mornings in Paris in Maine, pages from Le Monde. Can you guess which one of the above is my favorite? (me, I collect French postcards & illustrated books, as you know...at least the bags take up less space!